Hola todos!
I love the chance that I get to write these emails each week because I have a moment to recognize many of the things that happened in the week previous. Looking back on this last week I can hardly believe that it is over and the start of a new one is here! This new week brings with it transfers and I have a feeling that I am going to be moved. My current companion and I have been together for 3 transfers (4 and a half months) and I have never heard of any sisters who stayed together more than three transfers. Seeing as how I have the seniority in the Riverview ward we both feel like it is most likely that I will be changed. I will know tomorrow night and I will update you all in my email next Monday. I am a bit nervous yet excited for change. Yesterday was a bit hard saying goodbye to my ward family. My heart is in Riverview. I have grown to love these people so much that I did not want to ever think at all about having to leave them, yet I know that where the Lord chooses to send me next will be the place that I need to be.
Last week I feel like we were working more on helping the investigators that we currently have to progress. We also had a kind of crazy week. Well....okay so I don't remember if I talked about this in my last email but at the VC we got a call from a girl named Tara who wanted to know where the church in Kansas City was. Well I told her and then I found out that she wanted missionaries to come over to her house and teach her. So we did. When we got there we realized that she has some kind of mental disability. This first day of us visiting her brought an onslaught of calls almost every hour alongs with texts in about the same abundance. We told her that she cannot call us that much because we need to be able to teach others the way that we are teaching her. We told her that she could call us and text us once a day. This did not happen. She continued to call us a ton and also she started calling the VC asking for me. Last p-day we were told by some other elders who were here at the library writing home too that she is in contact with them as well and she wont stop calling them. We think that she might already be a member of the church so we are currently trying to find her records. She keeps calling the VC and coming by to see me(not sure why she specifically wants to see me) and even showed up at the church yesterday AFTER church. I dont know what to do because she just really needs love, but as missionaries we cannot provide what she needs. We already told our bishop about her but today we really need to call him and see if he can get someone in relief society to befriend her and help her. I am praying for her everyday.
A member of our ward took us out to eat this last week at one of those Japanese steak and seafood places where the guy cooks the food right in front of you and does a little show. It was for sure the nicest place that I have eaten at on my mission. We had so much fun!!! These three people sat down next to us and this guy asked me about my name tag and through dinner I was able to teach him a ton about the gospel, actually the whole first lesson. He seemed really interested and asked for my "business card" before we left and I gave him a Book of Mormon. He later text our phone number and I think he thought it was just my number and he wanted to go to the same steak house again. Yeah. Hopefully he is interested in the gospel...we will send the elders to him! Oh and at the steak house when the cook guy threw the food for us to catch it in our mouths...I caught both!!! I may have been the only one at the whole table who did it too... :D You know what? I am not exactly sure if having a big mouth is something to brag about....
So we had an appointment with our investigator named John Freeman this last week but he was not home when we got there. Ever since the very first time that we went to his house I noticed that his lawn really needed to be mowed but his friend that is helping him recover from his surgery, Jody, was going to mow the back lawn and actually asked me to help her start the lawn mower...I dont think that she could get it started again or something because the lawn was not competely mowed. Because I had helped her start the mower previously I knew where it was at in the shed in the backyard, so I told Hna Méndez that I wanted to mow his lawn during the time that we had set aside for his appointment. I was just praying that he would not show up while we were doing it! Well I mowed the front and then we both mowed the back. As I was mowing I was laughing thinking was we looked like out there in our Sunday best mowing John's lawn. Well we finished and they did not come while we were doing it! Later that night we got a phone call from John's friend Jody and she told us that John was like "Who in the world would do this?!" and Jody thought for a minute and then she said "It could only have been Sister Thorne (when she had asked me to help her start the mower before I actually had tried to take it from her and mow the lawn myself, I mean the woman in 75 for heaven's sake!)". John told her that there was no way that we could have done it, and then they found the note that we had left on the door reminding them that they had missed our appointment and that we would call to reschedule. Jody said to John then(keep in mind that Jody is a member) "Oh those sister missionaries did this, you just don't understand people from my church John!" This was one of the greatest moments to see how happy John was to have recieved service. What a wonderful day!
Well this week was great, and I can't wait to find out what is going to happen at transfers. I love you all so very much and I pray for you daily. Hey, look for some opportunities to serve and remember that it is hard to be sad when you are singing an uptlifting song.
con amor,
Hermana Thorne
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